Tag: Salisbury

• Tuesday, October 9th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Salisbury poisoning: second Russian involved is allegedly a military intelligence doctor

  

  The name of the second suspect in the Salisbury case is actually Alexander Mishkin, the BBC understands. The Bellingcat investigative website says the man who travelled under the alias Alexander Petrov is in reality a military doctor working for Russian intelligence, the GRU.

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

  Skripal poisoning case: Russian official television mockingly interviews the two “civilian” suspects

  

  Two men named as suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in the UK have said they were merely tourists. The men, named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, told the state-run RT channel they had travelled to Salisbury on the recommendation of friends. The UK believes the men are Russian military intelligence officers who tried to kill Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last March.

• Thursday, September 6th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  British prosecutors name two Russian intelligence agents as perpetrators of nerve agent attack in UK

  

  British prosecutors named two Russian men, believed to be officers in Russia's intelligence service, they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in the U.K. earlier this year. They named the men as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, and said they are officers in Russia's foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU.

• Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  UK woman dies after exposed to never agent Novichok; her partner in critical condition

  

  UK police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok died in hospital on Sunday evening. Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died at Salisbury District Hospital, Scotland Yard said.

• Friday, April 20th 2018 - 09:46 UTC

  Salisbury nerve gas incident: Uruguay rejects US suggestion to expel Russian diplomats

  

  Washington’s request that other countries also expel Russian diplomats is improper, Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa said. “I did not take this request well, I said it was improper and it should not have been made,” the top diplomat said as cited by the El Pais newspaper.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Major UK/Moscow diplomatic row in the making: nerve gas was used in murder attempt in Salisbury

  

  British Home Secretary is to make a Commons statement on the Salisbury poisoning mystery amid calls for a police investigation into 14 suspicious spying-related deaths in recent years. Amber Rudd will report to MPs on the dramatic disclosure by Scotland Yard that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a deadly nerve agent and targeted in an attempt to murder them.